Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1887-09-22

feet. The points of dry land were five
miles apart and all that distance those
hardy soldiers, in the month of Febru-
ary, Taded the cold snOw-flOOd,- some
times arm-pit deep. They arrived at
Vincennes on the 18th of February,
l779, and the next morning, with their
faces blackened with gunpowder to
make them apper hideous, they crossed
the river in q boat and pushed toward
the town. Had they dropped from the
clouds the Vincennes garrison could
not have been more surprised than at
the appearance of these troops. On the
Goth the "stars and stripesn were again
unfurled over the fort and Vincennes
was saved to the United States, the
second insurrection being completely
Overthrown.
In 1893, Judge Burnet, author of
"Notes on the Early Settlement of the
Northwest Territory" rode some ten or
twelve miles from Louisville into the
country to visit this veteran hero, in
duced to make this visit by the venera-
ton he entertained for the Generals
military talents and services.
"He had," says Judge Burnet, "the
appearance of man born to command
and fitted by Nature for his destiny
There was gravity and solemnity in
his demeanor resembling that which so
eminently distinguished the venerated
father of his country. A person familiar
with the lives and character of the
military veterans of Rome in the days
of her greatest power, might readily
have selected this remarkable man as q
specimen of the model he has formed
of them in his own mind; but he was
rapidly falling a victim to his extreme
sensibility, and to the ingratitude of
his native State, under whose banner
he had fought bravely and with great
success"
1t is a stain upon the honor of our
country that such mantle founder
of Louisville and, in fact, of Kentucky
and who, by his personal foresight and
energy, gave nine great States to the
Republicans allowed to sink under a
load of debt incurred for the honor and
glory of his country. Says Burnet:
'"Hhe traveller, who has read of his
achievements, admired his character
and visited the theater of his brilliant
deeds, discovers nothing indicating the
place where his remains are deposited,
and where he can go and pay tribute
of respect to the memory of the depart
ed and gallant hero"
There is preserved in the War De-
partment at Washington portrait of
Clarke, which gives evidence of char
acter of rare grasp and power. No one
can look upon that remarkable face
without acknowledging him to have
been man of unusual force of charac-
ter The history of his famous cam
paign is given in number three of the
Ohio Valley Historical Series. .s
We have not space to pass in extend
ed review the accounts of the various
Indian campaigns that followed, as that
is outside the province of this work.
The interesting account of the captivity
of Col. James Smith, in 1855, by the
Delawares, and of the ceremony. ofl
nation is given in number five of "The
Valley Historical Series," the first Eng |
lish military expedition into Ohio in
1894 by troops under Col. Henry Boquet
is given in number one of the same re-
nrarkabie series. The history OF that
campaign is full of thrilling interest.
Mr.. Kitchener in his History of the
Muskingum and Tuscarawas Valley"
gives a very graphic account of Col.
Boquet's Campaign, which we give be-
low in brief outline:
CoL..BoQUET's CAMPAIGN.
1t will be remembered that the
Frenah evacuated Fort Pitt as we'll as
all their forts in the Ohio and lake ter
ritory in A. d. 1853 by treaty with the
English Government. The Indians,
however, were not satisfied. They
were more friendly to the French than
to the English rule over their hunting
grounds, having received more presents,
more ammunition and whisky from the
French than they did wherever subject
to English domination. They smoth-
cred their feeling until about 1862,
when the great northwestern chief,
Pontiac, had a dream in which the
Great Spirit appeared to him and said
he must arouse the nations and drive
the English from the land, and when
you,' said he, are in distress will help
you.' Pontiac sent the war-belt to all
nations, assembled their warriors before
all the British forts, with directions to
put on friendly guise, and after getting
access to their forts, to slay every
man, woman, and child in each garri-
son and in the territory. There
were twelve forts in the Indian terrific
ry. Of these nine were taken by Pom
tiac's strategy during 1853 and 1853, and
the whites not put to death were car
ried into captivity.......
The only three forts not taken were
Ligonier, Redfort and Fort Pitt. The
white settlers were raided upon and
killed, or carried off, and the whole
frontier given up for time to Indian
massacre. The indignation of the col
onial authorities was aroused, General
Bradstreet marched up the lakes with
three thousand men. Other forces went
out, and the Indians were driven back
from the forts they had captured. Pom
tiac's war of determination was fail
ure. Chagrined at the Great Spirit for
for not assisting him, he made peace in
1866, became drunkard, and wandered
about until 1859, when he was killed
near the present st. Louis by an Illinois
Indian, in drunhen row, says tradi-
tion."
"The Delaware, Shawnee, and other
Indians of the Ohio territory had been
assigned by Pontiac to take Forts Pitt,
Lig0nier, and Bedford, and after his
war was over in 1853 they still menaced
these forts, and spread terror through
out western Pennsylvania and Virginia.
To punish these savages Colonel Boquet
was ordered to march from Philadel-
phia against the hostile tribes on the
Ohio. His force was 800 men, 300 of
whom dasarted at Carlisle such was